Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 44
When they were all ready the Hare took up his position at the end of the rope and caught hold of it with his teeth.
Who acts: end, ready Hare · What happens: be, take up, catch, hold · To what, where: position, end, hold, rope
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, ready Hare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ready | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ready | cop |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 ready | advmod |
| 5 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Hare | amod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hare | det |
| 7 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 position | nmod:poss |
| 11 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 rope | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rope | det |
| 17 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 caught | cc |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 20 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 hold | nmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 teeth | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 caught | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | end | all, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | the ready Hare | Hare's position | at the end of the rope | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent position=Theme at end=Asset | |||
| 3 | catch | past | the ready Hare not said here | hold of rope | with Hare's teeth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 4 | hold | rope | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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